Time flies.. The time for our EuNet-INNOCHRON 3rd Management Committee and 2nd Working Group meeting approaches (March 2-3 ,2021). We are looking forward to meeting you all and discuss the current projects and future plans of our Action.

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3rd MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING and
2nd WORKING GROUPs MEETING
02-03 MARCH 2021
Virtual event via ZOOM platform
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9102688668
TIME ZONE: Central European Time (CET)

Tuesday 2nd March 2021

MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETING
14:00 - 16:00 Management Committee Meeting
(eligible for participation: MC members or designated MC substitutes and MC observers)

 

Wednesday 3rd March 2021

WORKING GROUPS MEETING
(eligible for participation: all EuNet-INNOCHRON participants)

10:00 - 10:15 Welcome to participants - Introduction
             Helen Papadaki, Carlo Dufour

10:15 - 13:00 Updates from the Working Groups – Part I

10:15 - 11:00 Working Group 1 ‘Congenital Neutropenias’ session
Chairs: Alan Warren, Karl Welte
J. Skokowa: “Role of BAALC in leukemogenesis in SCN patients”
A. Warren: “Somatic genetic rescue of a germline ribosome assembly defect”

11:00 - 11:45 Working Group 2 ‘Acquired Neutropenias’ session
Chairs: Petter Hӧglund, Juergen Bux
Update on the progress and deliverables of WG2 (15 min)
- Training school in antibody identification in AIN (C. Dufour - F. Fioredda)
- Development of SOP on AIN techniques (J. Bux - I. Mavroudi - C. Pontikoglou)
- NGS on myeloid genes (G. Tsaknakis - H. Papadaki)
- Ongoing studies (P. Höglund)

New research data (30 min)
- G. Tsaknakis - H. Papadaki: "The clonal haemopoiesis and clonal evolution in CIN"
- P. Höglund: "The blood protein hCAP-18 in neutropenia: an 18-month experience of a new ELISA for clinical use"

11:45 - 12:30 Working Group 3 ‘Mechanisms of Leukaemic Evolution’ session
Chairs: Ivo Touw, Cristina Mecucci
P. Olofsen: "Truncated CSF3 receptors induce pro-inflammatory responses in SCN”
I. Touw: “A new genetic subtype of SCN with an autosomal dominant inheritance”
P. Olofsen: “PML-controlled responses in SCN with ELANE-misfolding mutations”

12:30 - 13:00 Break

13:00 - 14:30 Updates from the Working Groups Part II

13:00 - 13:45 Working Group 4 ‘Targets for Novel Therapies’ session
Chairs: Julia Skokowa, Joanna Cichy
J. Cichy: "Generation of a cellular model for investigating roles of elastase inhibitors in neutropenia"
J. Skokowa: Nicotinamide (vitamin B3) treatment improves response to G-CSF in SCN patients ".
J. Donadieu: “SGTL2 inhibitor in Glycogen storage disease Ιb and G6PC3”

13:45 - 14:30 Working Group 5 ‘Registries and biobanking’ session
Chairs: Jean Donadieu, Cornelia Zeidler, Kostas Stamatopoulos
J. Donadieu: “Classification of CNP”
C. Zeidler: “Registry for CNP in Europe”
K. Stamatopoulos: “Biobanking”

14:30 - 15:00 Presentation and Discussion by the Young EuNet-INNOCHRON
            Maksim Klimiankou - Valentino Bezzerri

15:00 - 15:15 Break 

15:15 - 17:45 Horizontal projects of the Action

15:15 - 15:45 Guidelines
Francesca Fioredda - Helen Papadaki

15:45 - 16:15 Documentation of COVID-19 infection in CN patients
Jan Palmblad - Marije Bartels - Carlo Dufour - Daniela Guardo

16:15 - 16:45 Autoimmune neutropenia cases preceding ALL
Jelena Roganovic

16:45 - 17:15 Clinical-Molecular Biology-Genetics board of experts
Julia Skokowa - Cornelia Zeidler

17:15 - 17:45 Leukaemia NGS pannel
Julia Skokowa - Hannah Tamary - Grigorios Tsaknakis

17:45 - 18:00 Summary and conclusions
             
Helen Papadaki, Carlo Dufour

 

 

Speakers/Chairs

     Affiliation

Dr

Juergen Bux

Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany

Dr

Marije Bartels

University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Dr

Valentino Bezzerri

Cystic Fibrosis Center, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Ospedali Riuniti, Ancona,Italy

Dr

Joanna Cichy

Jagiellonin University, Krakow, Poland

Dr

Jean Donadieu

AP-HP, Trousseau Hospital, France, Paris

Dr

Carlo Dufour

G.Gaslini Children's Research Hospital, Hematology Unit, Genova, Italy

Dr

Francesca Fioredda

G.Gaslini Children's Research Hospital, Genova, Italy

Dr

Daniela Guardo

IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini, Genova, Italy

Dr

Petter  Hӧglund

Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr

Maksim  Klimiankou

University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

Dr

Irene Mavroudi

University of Crete, School of Medicine / University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Dr

Cristina Mecucci

University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Ms

Patricia Olofsen

Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Dr

Charalampos Pontikoglou          

University of Crete, School of Medicine / University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Dr

Jan  Palmblad

Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr

Helen Papadaki

University of Crete, School of Medicine / University Hospital of Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Dr

Jelena Roganovic

Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka /

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka, Croatia

Dr

Julia Skokowa

University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Dr

Kostas Stamatopoulos

Institute of Applied Biosciences, Thessaloniki, Greece

Dr

Hannah Tamary

Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel / Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel

Dr

Ivo Touw

Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Dr

Grigorios Tsaknakis

University of Crete, School of Medicine, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Dr

Alan Warren

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Dr

Karl Welte

University Children Hospital, Tübingen, Germany

Dr

Cornelia Zeidler

Hannover Medical School/ Clinic for Hematology, Hemostaseology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, Hannover, Germany